No BS! I looked this up after seeing it on the local FOX news. Governor Jan Brewer (R) is on record saying she supports it 100% but apparently her advisors are telling her that whole Constitution thing could be a problem. I don't know if that will stop her though. She is the only actual Government Death Panel to ever exist: She broke the state law and discontinued health benefits to people who would die without them, as well as the mentally challenged, veterans and of course, the poor. Fortunately for those who were about to die, MSNBC set up some kind of fund, broadcasted all about it and apparently were able to save those people from Governor Brewer's arbitrary death sentence.
There is a LOT going on here that really deserves national attention but doesn't get it. The city council has tried to get rid of this whackjob Arpaio a few times. He is currently suing two of them for defamation (they claim he says things which well, he has been caught saying on video), which is costing the locals millions. Arpaio is now spending tons of taxpayer money on the Birther thing.
Arizona doesn't have a crowded metropolitan city like New York, Chicago etc... (the closest they have is Phoenix, which has a lot of people but is spread out over a HUGE land area) but is among the top in gun crimes per capita (and guess what? Illegal aliens account for less than 5% of it). They have the worst schools in the country, other than The South and over 400 rapes and child molestations annually aren't even investigated every year.
But THIS is the kind of stuff is what IS important to Arizonans: Don't annoy people on the internet. The complete lack of common sense in favor of social issues that appeal to mindless drones is obvious. No wonder Sarah Palin moved here. I am absolutely certain that the old, white Tea Partiers here would vote her into any office she wants.
This is quite an interesting place to visit! The people really do have hearts of gold - as long as you're "one of them" (they have been fantastic to my mom). But their politics and priorities are about four steps beyond whack.

Granny says, "Dat's right Sheriff Joe, don't let `em push ya around - tell `em to stick it where the sun don't shine!...U.S. sues Arpaio's office over treatment of LatinosMay. 10, 2012 The U.S. Justice Department's racial-profiling lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will prolong a case that already has languished for years unless negotiators find common ground for a settlement.

The suit, filed Thursday, accuses deputies of discriminating against Latino residents and seeks injunctive relief from a federal judge. It marks just the second time since the federal police-reform act was passed in 1994 that the Justice Department has been forced to file a contested lawsuit against a law-enforcement agency, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez said. If experience is any barometer, finding common ground for a settlement could prove difficult. The only other such case the Justice Department has taken to court took three years and several million dollars to settle, and the parties in that case were less polarized than Arpaio and his federal nemesis.

Perez said Thursday that his agency was left with no choice but to file suit against the five-term sheriff, his office and the county after Arpaio's attorneys balked at a demand for a court-appointed monitor to ensure the Sheriff's Office complied with any settlement terms. The sheriff has repeatedly rejected the notion of a court-appointed monitor with sweeping powers, and his attorneys blamed the Justice Department for being intractable on the issue. Arpaio said he welcomed the court challenge. "We are not racist, we do not racial- profile. There's no systemic proof of that," Arpaio said Thursday. "Quite frankly, I'm happy (they sued)."

But Perez said he was saddened by the turn of events that led the federal government to file only its second lawsuit since reforms were enacted after the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles. "I come here today with a profound sense of disappointment ... because, based on our experience, I feel like we had a pretty good handle on some of the solutions that would work and would make (Arpaio) look good and would make the community better and would make the community safer," Perez said.

A three-year Justice Department investigation concluded in December that sheriff's deputies and detention officers discriminated against Latinos in patrol and jail operations. The investigation initially was stalled by the sheriff's refusal to turn over records, which delayed the probe for 18 months and forced the federal government to sue for the documents in September 2010. That suit was resolved in 2011. Arpaio has repeatedly charged that the investigation was politically motivated and that the suit is timed to coincide with President Barack Obama's re-election bid.

After months of negotiations failed to reach a settlement over the allegations, the U.S. Justice Department took the rare step Thursday of suing. "We have invariably been able to work collaboratively with law enforcement agencies to build better departments and safer communities," Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez said. Arpaio and his department "have been a glaring exception," said Perez, who heads the civil rights division.

The main issue that caused talks to break down last month was federal officials' insistence that Arpaio agree to a court-appointed monitor for the department. Arpaio objected, saying it would undermine his authority. "I am not going to surrender my office to the federal government," a visibly angry Arpaio said at an afternoon news conference. "I will fight this to the bitter end." The lawsuit means that a federal judge will decide the escalating, long-standing dispute.

The Justice Department, which had been investigating Arpaio on civil rights allegations for more than three years and faced a similar impasse earlier in the investigation, said it was left with no choice but to sue the sheriff to seek the court-appointed monitor it wants to oversee the law enforcement agency. The DOJ had filed another lawsuit against Arpaio that alleged his office refused to fully cooperate with a request for records and access to jails and employees. It was settled last summer after the office complied.

The latest lawsuit comes as part of the DOJ's effort to enforce a law passed after the verdict in the Rodney King police brutality case and the Los Angeles riots. It bans police from systematically violating constitutional rights. Normally, settlements are filed in court as part of lawsuits that aren't contested by the police agencies. Since the law's passage, federal officials said that only once before has the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against a police department with which they were unable to reach an agreement. In 1999, they filed a lawsuit against Columbus, Ohio, police, but the two sides eventually settled, Perez said.

I see 'Independent Logic' is, yet again, demonstrating an absolute lack of both independence or logic.

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Seriously sweetheart, you need new material. I mean, your oh so clever little prattle was cute the first 100 times you followed me from thread to thread because of your little obssession with me, and okay, it's cute that you come into threads every day just to post about me!
But try to at least get beyond the 6thgrade nannie poopoo rants. Come up with something new! Fresh! Creative!
Of course, some day you might discuss something other than me but that would require thought on your part and I don't want you to over-extend yourself.

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